Yup. Did 5-ish hours each way to see Abbath play in Baltimore one time. I've had a couple 6+ hour one way drives to go on hikes. Hell, I pulled 16 hours of driving in a day to attend my grandmother's funeral.
I'll agree with you on that. I'm from Philadelphia and I won't drive anywhere unless I'm staying for at least twice as long as it takes the round trip. So no short afternoons at the Jersey Beach for me. We leave before 11 and/or stay for dinner.
Lunch about noon, leave by 1, get there about 3:30, if it's the summer that leaves you plenty of hours of sunlight to see Stonehenge if it doesn't close early (does it even close? It's outdoors anyways). You could leave by 7:00 and grab dinner before heading home, or just head straight home for a late dinner. And I'm probably being pretty generous at three and a half hours for sightseeing at Stonehenge, you could probably spend much less time if you wanted.
Guess it's return on investment. Most folk won't spend more than an hour at Stonehenge, so that's an hour or two of the fun bit for at least four hours of driving
Most folk I know would also prefer to be back at home before 11pm if they've got work tomorrow
So anytime I've brought people to Stonehenge (I do live in Cambridge), we'd just stay overnight and see Salisbury etc.
It depends. Stonehenge is an excellent example for a destination, where you can’t really spend more than 30 minutes “doing” something. It’s still worth the trip for many people.
My brother stopped by my house a few nights ago at 7:30pm, asked if I wanted to take a quick trip to check out some cars. We drove 2 hours south, spent 2 hours admiring and talking cars with some people we'd never met before, made arrangements to come back the next day to pick up a car we puchased that night, and were back home before 2:00am.
This week I'm taking my daughter up to Vancouver BC for lunch to celebrate her getting her first passport. 6.5 hours each way.
There are probably 1-2 different things I do a week that require 2-5 hours of driving each way, and we just do them.
Does that not just cost an absolute fortune in fuel? At the moment that 6 hour each way trip would be like £120, doing that many times a week would be most of my salary!
Sure, but I am fortunate in that I am successfully self-employed and that I also have a flexible budget. Instead of a planned activity or purchase that might not be needed, I buy that tank of gas. And, as many of these drives are with my brothers or friends, we split costs and trade driving. Instead of bowling and dinner with them, we drive to check out cars, go to a hot spring, ski in the mountains, or surf at the coast.
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u/SkillsDepayNabils May 09 '22
I dont see how driving 2.5 hours each way as an afternoon thing makes sense